ISBN:
0631212345
,
9780631212355
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 780 S.
Series Statement:
Blackwell Reference Online
Parallel Title:
Print version Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development
DDC:
305.231
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Kinderpsychologie
;
Einführung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This up-to-date overview of the fast-moving field of infant development covers all the major areas of interest in terms of research, applications and policy.Provides an up-to-date overview of progress on important developmental questions relating to infancy. Balances North American and European perspective. Written by leading international researchers. Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit www.xreferplus.com
Description / Table of Contents:
Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I Perception and Cognition; Introduction; 1 Visual Perception; 2 Hearing, Listening, and Understanding: Auditory Development in Infancy; 3 Action in Infancy - Perspectives, Concepts, and Challenges: The Development of Reaching and Grasping; 4 Cognitive Development: Knowledge of the Physical World; 5 Infant Learning and Memory; 6 Functional Brain Development During Infancy; 7 Origins of Self-concept; 8 Joint Visual Attention in Infancy
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Mind Knowledge in the First Year: Understanding Attention and IntentionPart II Social, Emotional, and Communicative Development; Introduction; 10 Mother-Infant Interaction; 11 First Attachments: Theory and Research; 12 Peers and Infant Social/Communicative Development; 13 The Salience of Touch and Physical Contact During Infancy: Unraveling Some of the Mysteries of the Somesthetic Sense; 14 Preverbal Communication; 15 Early Language; 16 Principles of Emotion and its Development in Infancy; 17 Temperament; Part III Risk Factors in Development; Introduction; 18 Prenatal Development and Risk
Description / Table of Contents:
19 Early Intervention and Risk20 Early Social Development in Young Children with Autism: Theoretical and Clinical Implications; 21 Infant Mental Health in a Changing Society; 22 Sensory Deficits; Part IV Contexts and Policy Issues; Introduction; 23 Infancy Research, Policy, and Practice; 24 Childcare Research at the Dawn of a New Millennium: Taking Stock of What We Know; 25 Health, Nutrition, and Safety; 26 The History (and Future) of Infancy; Subject Index; Author Index;
Note:
Print publication date: 2004
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